Howell Creek runs right through
the town of West Plains. While parts of the creek have water running
year round, most of it is dry except during and after wet weather.

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Above, cleanup crew members with Anita
Brown, Engineering Tech/GIS Coordinator with the City of West Plains
Engineering Dept, who coordinated the cleanup.
Below, crew members with LaVada Mann, West Plains Middle School science
teacher.

The
City of West Plains is implementing education & outreach to
provide ongoing awareness about our local streams. They sponsored
the Howell Creek cleanup with West Plains Middle School.

Clean up date: April 21, 2005

Distance cleaned: Approx. 1 mile of Howell Creek from
the east end of Bratton Ave west to St. Louis Street at Neathery
Skate Park.

Number of bags of trash: 35, and 1 tire along with
several larger objects.

The Howell Creek Stream Team from West Plains Middle School

West
Plains Storm Water Program

The City of West Plains is actively implementing a Storm Water
Management Program in our community, as authorized by the Clean
Water Act which is known as the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination
System (NPDES) permit program. This program is designed to prevent
harmful pollutants from being washed by storm water runoff into
local water bodies or being dumped directly and then discharged
into local water bodies. The City is implementing several types
of outreach to inform and educate our community. Working together
we can make a difference and reduce the amount of pollutants entering
streams, lakes and rivers as a result of runoff from residential,
commercial and industrial areas.

This is the Web site of the Bryant Watershed Project,
based in West Plains, Missouri. Our site is a toolkit for exploring the
Bryant Creek, North Fork, Eleven Point and Upper Spring watersheds in
the southern Missouri Ozarks. Learn more.